wished to keep for relics.
Everything else on the island
he left for the Spaniards when they
should return from the mainland, and
he wrote out for their benefit a full ac-
count of his way of living, and all his
plans and contrivances. He also induced
the captain to leave a supply of tools that
he knew would be useful to them, and an
assortment of seeds of various kinds. Then they
set sail, and Robinson. Crusoe left the island, twenty-eight
years, two months and nineteen days after he had landed upon it.
Three days after setting sail, as they passed near the coast of an
island, they saw close to.-the shore a great fleet of canoes, full of
savages armed with bows and arrows. They were going through
strange evolutions, and Friday said that they were probably setting
out to make war on some other tribe. When they caught sight of
the ship, and saw that those on board were watching them, they

 
  
 

  

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came paddling toward it, and soon were swarming about on all
sides, uttering curious cries, and making uncouth gesturés. Those
on the ship were very much puzzled to know what their intentions
could be, and finally Robinson Crusoe told Friday to go on the up-
per deck and speak to them in his own language, which he hoped
they might be able to understand. Friday did as he was bid, but
had spoken only a few words when the savages let fly a great
cloud of arrows athim. So poor was their aimthat only three of
the arrows struck him, but one of the three pierced him through
the heart, and he fell dead.

When Robinson Crusoe saw this he became almost frantic with
rage, and ordered the ship’s guns to be loaded with grapeshot and
fired into the fleet. The effect was tremendous. More than half

 

 
  
   
   
    
 
    
 
   
     
   
    
      
      
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
 
   

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